Queen Esther
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After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his
bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning The Cider House
Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr
Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is
shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905.
Her father dies on board a ship from Bremerhaven to Portland,
Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother in Portland.In the
orphanage at St. Cloud's, it's clear to Dr Larch, the physician and
director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child not only knows
she's Jewish, but she's familiar with the biblical Queen Esther she
was named for. Dr Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish
family to adopt Esther, he doubts he'll find any family to adopt
her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to become a ward of the state,
Dr.Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic family with a history
of providing for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but
they detest anti-Semitism and similar prejudice. Esther's gratitude
to the Winslows is unending.As she retraces her steps to her birth
city, Esther keeps loving and protecting the Winslows - even in
Vienna. The final chapter of this historical novel is set in
Jerusalem in 1981, when Esther is seventy-six.
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John Irving ,
Scribner UK
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John Irving,
Scribner UK
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